• Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree with a Major in Architectural Studies ARCHITECTURE (https://ga.rice.edu/programs-study/departments-programs/ architecture/architecture/architectural-studies-ba/) Contact Information Architecture Post-Bachelor's Program https://arch.rice.edu/ • Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) Degree (https://ga.rice.edu/ Anderson Hall programs-study/departments-programs/architecture/architecture/ 713-348-4864 architecture-barch/) Igor Marjanović Master's Programs Dean • Master of Architecture (MArch) Degree (https://ga.rice.edu/ [email protected] programs-study/departments-programs/architecture/architecture/ Reto Geiser architecture-march/) Director of Undergraduate Studies • Master of Science (MS) Degree in the field of Architecture (https:// [email protected] ga.rice.edu/programs-study/departments-programs/architecture/ architecture/architecture-ms/) Dawn Finley Director of Graduate Studies fi[email protected] William Ward Watkin Dean Igor Marjanović
The Rice School of Architecture focuses on speculative practice - Harry K. and Albert K. Smith Professor that is, the teaching and research of architecture and urban design John J. Casbarian as speculations that will advance professional practice as well as our built environment. Intimate student-faculty interaction, academic Gus Sessions Wortham Professor freedom, and unrestricted institutional cooperation within and outside the Albert H. Pope university are distinctive qualities of the architecture degree programs at Rice. Students build on their classroom experience through design- build projects in our Construct program; site and office visits with our Professors Mentorship program; and our award-winning Totalization program, which Dawn Finley incorporates professional consultants and instruction (structural, façade, Carlos Jimenez financial, MEP, and other) within the studio, enabling our students to apply advanced technologies to building design and construction. Associate Professors Andrew Colopy Rice Architecture's undergraduate programs maintain a balance between Reto Geiser a focused study of architecture and a broad general education. In Christopher Hight addition to formal coursework, students benefit from lectures and R. Troy Schaum presentations from distinguished practitioners and scholars, symposia Jesús Vassallo-Fernando and other cultural events, and the unique Rice Preceptorship program, which places students in an outstanding professional office for a nine to twelve-month internship that includes all phases of the design- Assistant Professors construction process. Juan José Castellón Gonzalez Scott Colman Rice Architecture’s graduate programs situate design within a broader Sarah Nichols context of architectural history, contemporary practice, and advanced Brittany Utting material and fabrication technologies. Rice’s graduate program culminates in an independent design thesis, on the principle that an Professors Emeriti architectural education provides a complete exposure to architecture’s William Tillman Cannady breadth, from which students establish their expertise, through this Gordon G. Wittenberg Jr. independent design research. Rice Architecture's Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) and Master of Professors in the Practice Architecture (MArch) degree programs are accredited by the National Nonya S. Grenader Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB (https://www.naab.org/)), Douglas E. Oliver which accredits professional degrees in architecture offered by Danny M. Samuels institutions with U.S. Department of Education recognized accreditation. Mark S. Wamble Bachelor's Programs Senior Lecturers • Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree with a Major in Architecture (https:// Alan Fleishacker ga.rice.edu/programs-study/departments-programs/architecture/ David Stephen Fox architecture/architecture-ba/)
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Christof Spieler ARCH 105 - ENVIRONMENT, CULTURE AND SOCIETY Short Title: ENVIRONMENT, CULTURE & SOCIETY Lecturers Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Ernesto Alfaro Course Type: Lecture Andrew Albers Distribution Group: Distribution Group II Mandi Chapa Credit Hours: 3 Tom F. Lord Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Stephen Redding Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Rives Taylor Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level Frank S. White Description: This introductory course in environmental studies helps students to better understand the complex interrelationship between Visiting Critics human cultures and their social and physical environments. Lectures Elizabeth Galvez and assignments draw upon the methods and expertise of architecture, Astrid Sukur the humanities and the social sciences. This is a core course of Rice's Environmental Studies minor. Cross-list: ENST 100. Wortham Fellows ARCH 201 - PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE III - ORGANIZATION Nathan Friedman Short Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE III Margaret Tsang Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter For Rice University degree-granting programs: Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory To view the list of official course offerings, please see Rice’s Credit Hours: 6 Course Catalog (https://courses.rice.edu/admweb/!SWKSCAT.cat? Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate p_action=cata) Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. To view the most recent semester’s course schedule, please see Rice's Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level Course Schedule (https://courses.rice.edu/admweb/!SWKSCAT.cat) Prerequisite(s): ARCH 102 Description: What is the relationship between diagrammatic organization Architecture (ARCH) systems and the tectonic systems of construction? What is the ARCH 101 - PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE I - ORDER relationship between the internal organization of a building's program Short Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE I and its immediate external context? The potentials of different structural Department: Architecture systems in relationship to programmatic diagrams are foregrounded to Grade Mode: Standard Letter develop an architectural proposal for a public program of medium size. Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory ARCH 202 - PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE IV - EFFECTS Credit Hours: 6 Short Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE IV Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Department: Architecture Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Description: This introductory studio frames architecture as a discipline Credit Hours: 6 through a set of short problems that examine the relationship between Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate formal and spatial ordering, technical and material concepts, and Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. issues of use and program, culminating in a small synthetic project. Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level Permission Required by Director of Undergraduate Studies, Rice School Prerequisite(s): ARCH 201 of Architecture. Department Permission Required. Description: What is the relationship between material, technique and ARCH 102 - PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE II - REPRESENTATION spatial or formal effects? This studio focuses on developing a student’s Short Title: PRINCIPLES OF ARCHITECTURE II understanding and experimentation with material and tectonic systems, Department: Architecture building envelopes, and issues of sustainability. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Credit Hours: 6 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level Prerequisite(s): ARCH 101 Description: What is the role of information and representation within the design process? This studio introduces and explores the tools and concepts of notation and representation in architecture and how they serve as instruments of inquiry in a design processes. The use of precedents is a focus early in the semester, in which students analyze a project and its formal concepts that inform the design of a small architectural project in n the second part of the course.
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ARCH 207 - TECHNOLOGY I ARCH 301 - INTERMEDIATE PROBLEMS IN ARCHTECTURE I - SITUATION Short Title: TECHNOLOGY I Short Title: INTERMEDIATE PROBLEMS ARCH I Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Lecture Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Distribution Group: Distribution Group III Credit Hours: 6 Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level Prerequisite(s): ARCH 202 Description: The course will introduce students to historical and Description: What is the relationship between the building and larger contemporary structures through multi-media presentations, computer- systems of the environment, constructed and natural, in which it sits and based visualizations, field trips, and hands-on experiments with materials affects? This studio focuses on issues of architecture’s relationship to of construction and physical models of structures. This course also site and landscape environmental considerations and the relationship addresses sustainability issues specific to structural systems such between systems and processes across the scales of architecture, urban as embodied energy, life-cycle cost, and material recycling. This is the and infrastructure. introductory course on the art and science of designing engineered ARCH 302 - INTERMEDIATE PROBLEMS IN ARCHTECTURE II - structures and is the first of four required courses in the architectural LEGIBILITY technology sequence. It is intended for first or second year students Short Title: INTERMEDIATE PROBLEMS ARCH II interested in both civil engineering and architecture. Graduate/ Department: Architecture Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 507. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot Grade Mode: Standard Letter register for ARCH 207 if student has credit for ARCH 507. Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// Credit Hours: 6 www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate ARCH 225 - INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL THINKING Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Short Title: INTRO ARCHITECTURAL THINKING Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Department: Architecture Prerequisite(s): ARCH 301 Grade Mode: Standard Letter Description: How do questions of legibility in architecture engage a global Course Type: Lecture milieu? This typically travel focused studio develops a large and complex Distribution Group: Distribution Group I architectural project in an urban context, examining through design the Credit Hours: 3 relationship between a specific locale and culture on the one hand and on Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate the other a global economy and discipline. Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. ARCH 305 - ARCHITECTURE FOR NON-ARCHITECTS Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level Short Title: ARCH FOR NON-ARCHITECTS Description: Introduction to architectural thought. Lectures and Department: Architecture discussions focusing on practice and ideas that have exercised a Grade Mode: Standard Letter significant influence on the discourse and production of architecture and Course Type: Lecture urbanism. Cross-list: HART 225. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: Distribution Group: Distribution Group I ARCH 525. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 225 if student Credit Hours: 3 has credit for ARCH 525. Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level ARCH 238 - SPECIAL TOPICS Description: This course is designed to increase awareness and Short Title: SPECIAL TOPICS appreciation of broad range of architectural issues through lectures, Department: Architecture comparative building studies, design exercises, readings, and discussion. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Intended for non-majors in architecture, the course will provide students Course Type: Internship/Practicum, Laboratory, Lecture, Seminar, the opportunity to understand the architectural design process through Independent Study hands-on experience. Enrollment limited to 15 and requires instructor Credit Hours: 1-4 permission. Instructor Permission Required. Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-Level Description: Topics and credit hours may vary each semester. Contact department for current semester’s topic(s). Repeatable for Credit.
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ARCH 309 - TECHNOLOGY II ARCH 313 - CASE STUDIES IN SUSTAINABLE DESIGN Short Title: TECHNOLOGY II Short Title: CASE STUDIES IN SUSTAIN DESIGN Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Lecture Course Type: Seminar Distribution Group: Distribution Group III Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Description: This course will explore sustainable design from initial Description: This course is the second part of the introduction to sustainable facility concepts and team organizations, to enlisting contemporary building structures. The topics covered are the design community support and process assessment. The course will develop of concrete structures and design of specialized structures including into details about sustainable design, lessons learned, processes and tilt wall, long span, and high rise. Each structural type is explored in outcomes. Space is limited and registration does not guarantee a terms of overall performance, design of individual components, and the space in this course. The final course roster is formulated on the first relation of structure to other building subsystems such as foundations, day class by the individual instructor. Cross-list: ENST 313. Graduate/ enclosure, and interiors. This course also addresses sustainability issues Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 613. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot specific to structural systems and is the second of four required courses register for ARCH 313 if student has credit for ARCH 613. in the architectural technology sequence. Graduate/Undergraduate Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// Equivalency: ARCH 509. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Prior completion www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) of Technology I. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 309 if ARCH 314 - TECHNOLOGY III student has credit for ARCH 509. Short Title: TECHNOLOGY III Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// Department: Architecture www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARCH 310 - VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORICAL CITIES Course Type: Lecture Short Title: VIRTL RECONSTR HISTORCL CITIES Credit Hours: 3 Department: Architecture Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Grade Mode: Standard Letter Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Type: Research Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Credit Hours: 3 Description: The building envelope is the collection of material Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate assemblies that separate a building’s interior from the exterior Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. environment. This course examines the interaction of those assemblies Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level with natural forces such as temperature, moisture, and solar radiation Description: This course, part of the HRC’s Digital Humanities Initiative, and the details of construction which have evolved to mitigate them. is devoted to the virtual reconstruction of ancient urban landscapes The subject matter includes both traditional building exterior wall and with focus on individual buildings in their urban settings. All course roof construction and newer technologies such as rainscreen, green activities will be based around interdisciplinary student teams who will roof, and building surface media systems. This course addresses work together through the semesters to complete a virtual reconstruction sustainability issues related to enclosure systems through energy cost project. Instructor Permission Required. Cross-list: ANTH 346, COMP 316, and carbon footprint analysis. It is the third of four required courses HART 316. in the architectural technology sequence. Graduate/Undergraduate ARCH 311 - HOUSTON ARCHITECTURE Equivalency: ARCH 514. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 314 Short Title: HOUSTON ARCHITECTURE if student has credit for ARCH 514. Department: Architecture Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// Grade Mode: Standard Letter www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Course Type: Lecture Distribution Group: Distribution Group I Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Description: This course consists of a series of illustrated lectures and walking tours that describe and analyze the architecture of Houston from the city's founding in 1836 to the present. Characteristic building types and exceptional works of architecture are identified; tours stimulate an awareness of the historical dimension of urban sites. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 311 if student has credit for ARCH 611. Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/)
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ARCH 315 - BRAZIL BUILT: THE CLINIC, THE TROPICAL, AND THE ARCH 321 - CASE STUDIES IN SUSTAINABILITY: THE HIGH AESTHETIC PERFORMANCE BUILDING Short Title: BRAZIL BUILT Short Title: SUSTAINABILITY CASE STUDIES Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Seminar Course Type: Seminar Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Description: From Brazil Builds, MOMA's 1943 celebrated exhibition Description: The project-based seminar will provide a means by to Brasilia, the supermodern capital created ex-nihilo in the middle of which all those with an interest in the building science entailed in nowhere, to today's worldwide attention on Brail, this seminar examines the design of commercial, institutional, and residential structures the built environment - natural and architectural - as the main transmitter can investigate common issues, obtain information, discuss local of modernism in Brazil. This is a seminar on Brazilian modernism and its strategies, and otherwise address subjects relating to building or campus discontents. Cross-list: HART 310. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: performance over its lifecycle. To develop an approach of taking an ARCH 515. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 315 if student existing Rice University building an optimizing its use via "repositioning" has credit for ARCH 515. or redesign the class will create an interdisciplinary forum where ARCH 316 - TECHNOLOGY IV students of architecture, engineering (structural, mechanical, etc.), and Short Title: TECHNOLOGY IV human sciences will potentially collaborate with professional building Department: Architecture consultants, materials manufactures, contractors, developers, owners, Grade Mode: Standard Letter and Rice campus facility managers Cross-list: ENST 321. Graduate/ Course Type: Lecture Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 621. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot Distribution Group: Distribution Group III register for ARCH 321 if student has credit for ARCH 621. Credit Hours: 3 ARCH 322 - CASE STUDIES IN SUSTAINABILITY: THE REGENERATIVE Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate REPOSITIONING OF NEW OR EXISTING RICE CAMPUS BLDGS Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Short Title: CASE STUDIES IN SUSTAINABILITY Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Department: Architecture Description: This course addresses building environmental systems Grade Mode: Standard Letter including power, water, and wastewater with an emphasis on air condition Course Type: Seminar systems. Through multimedia presentations and fieldtrips, students Credit Hours: 3 are taught to analyze the thermal environment in a variety of building Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level types and select equipment to meet these needs. Sustainability issues Description: This course will explore application of high performance, related to environmental systems such as energy conservational and sustainable design to specific Rice University campus and facility life cycle costs are also addressed. This is the fourth required course targets. In partnership with Rice University leadership, the team effort will in the architectural technology sequence. Graduate/Undergraduate develop "regenerative redesign" approaches based on investigation of Equivalency: ARCH 516. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 316 other campuses' case study. Space is limited and registration does not if student has credit for ARCH 516. guarantee a space in this course. The final course roster is formulated Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// on the first day of class by the individual instructor. Cross-list: ENST 322. www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 322 if student has credit for ARCH 318 - LIVING IN THE CITY IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE ARCH 622. Short Title: LIVING IN THE CITY Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// Department: Architecture www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Seminar Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Description: Seminar combines primary and secondary sources to explore the urban experiences of Ottoman men and women in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Looking at several cities including Istanbul, Izmir, Salonika, Damascus, Aleppo and Alexandria, we will discuss such issues as neighborhood and community life, public spaces and recreational culture perceptions of space, urban institutions, Muslim and non-Muslim relations, migration and marginality, violence and death. Reading knowledge of French and /or Turkish helpful but not necessary. Cross-list: HART 308. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 518. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 318 if student has credit for ARCH 518.
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ARCH 323 - SEMINAR IN ARCHITECTURE ARCH 329 - STREETS AND URBAN LIFE: PARIS TO ISTANBUL Short Title: SEMINAR IN ARCHITECTURE Short Title: STREETS AND URBAN LIFE Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Seminar Course Type: Lecture Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Description: Small, focused, discussion, workshop and/or design based Description: Exploration of the street as a focus of urban life in 18th courses on topics of recent research in architecture, delivered by RSA and 19th century. We will look at ways streets functioned as spaces of full time or visiting faculty. Each section is a different seminar topic. This livelihood, sociability, and transgression in cities such as London, Paris, seminar series is open to RSA undergraduate and graduate students. Istanbul, Amsterdam & Cairo. Cross-list: HART 329, HIST 329. Graduate/ Students from other departments may enroll in the course with instructor Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 529. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot permission. See our website for more information: arch.rice.edu/courses. register for ARCH 329 if student has credit for ARCH 529. Space is limited and registration does not guarantee a space in this ARCH 330 - CONSTRUCT II course. The final course roster is formulated on the first day class by the Short Title: CONSTRUCT II individual instructor. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 523. Department: Architecture Repeatable for Credit. Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARCH 326 - MATERIAL, FORM, SPACE, TIME: CONCRETE AND THE Course Type: Seminar REVOLUTION OF SPACE IN ANCIENT ROME Credit Hours: 3,4 Short Title: MATERIAL, FORM, SPACE, TIME Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Department: Architecture Description: Construct involves graduate and undergraduate students in Grade Mode: Standard Letter the design and construction of real projects at various scales. Elective Course Type: Lecture courses and course sequences will be formatted to address the specific Credit Hours: 3 requirements of each project as required. Please consult postings for Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate further information. Space is limited, and registration does not guarantee Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. a space in this course. The final roster is formulated on the first day of Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level class by the individual instructor. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for Description: "Architectural Revolution" has been tied to Le Corbusier, the ARCH 330 if student has credit for ARCH 630. Repeatable for Credit. Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Brunelleschi and to towering Gothic cathedrals. Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// At the foundation of all these endeavors is the Concrete Revolution www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) in Roman Architecture. In this course we'll look at the four essential ARCH 331 - IMPERIAL CITY: ISTANBUL 1453-1922 elements of this revolution from the fourth century BCE to the fifth Short Title: ISTANBUL IMPERIAL CITY century CE, and we'll investigate how shifts in application and experience Department: Architecture created a background that informs design to this day. Cross-list: Grade Mode: Standard Letter CLAS 326, HART 326. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 626. Course Type: Seminar Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 326 if student has credit for Credit Hours: 3 ARCH 626. Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate ARCH 327 - CONSTRUCT Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Short Title: CONSTRUCT Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Department: Architecture Description: This thematic seminar examines significant historical Grade Mode: Standard Letter moments in the architectural and urban cultural of the Ottoman imperial Course Type: Laboratory capital from the moment it was conquered until the demise of the Credit Hours: 3,4 Ottoman empire. Weekly readings and discussions will cover a range Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level of topics including building patronage, architectural decorum, the Description: Construct involves graduate and undergraduate students in Byzantine legacy, artistic relations with Persia, India and Europe, cultural the design and construction of real projects at various scales. Elective pluralism, neighborhood and public life, law and urban order, modernity courses and course sequences will be formatted to address the specific and modernization. Cross-list: HART 321. Graduate/Undergraduate requirements of each project as required. Please consult postings for Equivalency: ARCH 521. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 331 further information. Space is limited, and registration does not guarantee if student has credit for ARCH 521. a space in this course. The final course roster is formulated on the first Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// day of class by the individual instructor. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) register for ARCH 327 if student has credit for ARCH 627. Repeatable for Credit. Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/)
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ARCH 332 - JERUSALEM TO ISFAHAN ARCH 346 - FOUNDATIONS IN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF Short Title: JERUSALEM TO ISFAHAN ARCHITECTURE II (1850-1950) Department: Architecture Short Title: FOUNDATIONS IN ARCH II Grade Mode: Standard Letter Department: Architecture Course Type: Seminar Grade Mode: Standard Letter Credit Hours: 3 Course Type: Lecture Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Distribution Group: Distribution Group I Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Credit Hours: 3 Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Description: A seminar on key topics of the study of visual cultures in the Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. medieval and early modern Muslim world focused on specific works of Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level art. Politics of architectural patronage, dissemination of visual languages, Prerequisite(s): ARCH 345 or ARCH 645 or HART 345 or HART 645 calligraphy, "ornament" and figural representation in Islam, cross-cultural Description: Lectures and discussions focusing on significant exchanges and trans-religious iconographies are among the topics architectural and urban practices and ideas formulated be 1850 and discussed. Cross-list: HART 322. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: 1950. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 646. Mutually ARCH 522. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 332 if student Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 346 if student has credit for ARCH has credit for ARCH 522. 336/ARCH 536. ARCH 340 - LECTURE IN ARCHITECTURE Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// Short Title: LECTURE IN ARCHITECTURE www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Department: Architecture ARCH 350 - INTRODUCTORY ARCHITECTURE SEMINAR Grade Mode: Standard Letter Short Title: INTRODUCTORY ARCHITECTURE SEM Course Type: Lecture Department: Architecture Credit Hours: 3 Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Course Type: Seminar Description: Large, introductory-level course in lecture/discussion format Credit Hours: 3 on topics related to current research in architecture. Current offerings Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level and enrollment eligibility are listed on the Rice Architecture website: Description: Small, focused, introductory-level course in discussion, www.arch.rice.edu. Repeatable for Credit. workshop and/or design-based format on topics related to current Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// research in architecture. Current offerings and enrollment eligibility are www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) listed on the Rice Architecture website: arch.rice.edu. Space is limited ARCH 345 - FOUNDATIONS IN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF and registration does not guarantee a space in this course. Repeatable ARCHITECTURE I (1450-1850) for Credit. Short Title: FOUNDATIONS IN ARCH I Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// Department: Architecture www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARCH 352 - FOUNDATIONS IN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF Course Type: Lecture ARCHITECTURE III (1950-2000) Distribution Group: Distribution Group I Short Title: FOUNDATIONS IN ARCH III Credit Hours: 3 Department: Architecture Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Grade Mode: Standard Letter Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Type: Seminar Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Distribution Group: Distribution Group I Description: Lectures and discussions focusing on significant Credit Hours: 3 architectural and urban practices and ideas formulated before 1850. Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Cross-list: HART 345. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 645. Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 345 if student has credit for Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level ARCH 235/ARCH 535. Prerequisite(s): (ARCH 225 or ARCH 525) and (ARCH 345 or ARCH 645) Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// and (ARCH 346 or ARCH 646) www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Description: Lectures and discussions focusing on significant architectural and urban practices between 1950 and 2000. Graduate/ Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 652. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 352 if student has credit for ARCH 337/ARCH 537. Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/)
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ARCH 353 - PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ARCHITECTS ARCH 366 - RIO DE JANEIRO: A SOCIAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY Short Title: PHOTO FOR ARCHITECTS Short Title: RIO DE JANEIRO Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Seminar Course Type: Lecture Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Description: Exploration of a variety of photographic techniques for Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. architectural research, design, and presentation. Space is limited and Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level registration does not guarantee a space in this course. The final course Description: The development of Rio de Janeiro from a colonial capital to roster is formulated on the first day class by the individual instructor. an Olympic host with emphasis on the peoples of the city and evolution Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 353 if student has credit for of the urban panorama. Cross-list: HIST 366. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot ARCH 653. register for ARCH 366 if student has credit for ARCH 666. Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// ARCH 367 - SCULPTURE STUDIO www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Short Title: SCULPTURE STUDIO ARCH 359 - CINEMAS OF URBAN ALIENATION Department: Architecture Short Title: CINEMAS OF URBAN ALIENATION Grade Mode: Standard Letter Department: Architecture Course Type: Studio Grade Mode: Standard Letter Credit Hours: 3 Course Type: Seminar Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Credit Hours: 4 Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Prerequisite(s): ARTS 165 Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Description: Study of advanced problems in various sculptural media. Description: This seminar examines cinematic engagements with Limited enrollment. The roster is formulated on the first day of class urban spaces and experiences around the world spanning the last by the instructor, who may allow additional registration for majors and two centuries. Particular attention will be paid to issues of migration, under-classmen. It is necessary to attend the first class meeting to marginality, colonialism, war and post-war, nostalgia and memory, race confirm your place on the class roster. Cross-list: ARTS 366. and gender. Cities of focus include Berlin, Istanbul, Moscow, Algiers, ARCH 375 - LATIN-EUROPE/LATIN-AMERICA: THE AESTHETICS AND Beirut and Paris. Our weekly discussions of individual films will be POLITICS OF MODERN CITIES grounded in critical writings of the cities' histories and theories of space Short Title: LATIN-EUROPE/LATIN-AMERICA and film. Cross-list: FILM 359, HART 359. Graduate/Undergraduate Department: Architecture Equivalency: ARCH 654. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 359 Grade Mode: Standard Letter if student has credit for ARCH 654. Course Type: Seminar ARCH 363 - ARCHITECTURAL FREEHAND DRAWING WORKSHOP Credit Hours: 3 Short Title: ARCH FREEHAND DRAWING WKSHOP Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Department: Architecture Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Description: This course challenges our pre-conceived maps of the world, Credit Hours: 3 highlighting Latin America's place within our understanding of modernity Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate as a product of transnational interconnections. Transversing the Atlantic, Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. this course traces the interactions of capitalism and culture, science and Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level aesthetics, and the ideologies that informed and formed the urban fabric Description: The object of this workshop is to explore, practice and and spatial politics of important cities in the modern Latin world - Paris, develop a series of drawing methods and techniques in the context of Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Havana, and Brasilia. the architectural design process. Emphasis will be on the development Cross-list: HART 375. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 675. of free-hand drawing skills that will enhance the ability the ability of the Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 375 if student has credit for design in communicating conceptual ideas. The course will consist of a ARCH 675. combination of lectures/demonstrations, in-class drawing exercises, and out-of-class assignments. Two sketch books (one at mid-term and one at the end of the semester) will also be required. Attendance is critical. Please come to the first class prepared to draw with pen and an 8 1/2 x 11 or 9 x 12 sketch pad. Space is limited and registration does not guarantee a space in this course. The final course roster is formulated on the first day class by the individual instructor. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 363 if student has credit for ARCH 663. Repeatable for Credit.
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ARCH 376 - THE ARCHITECTURE OF BOOKS ARCH 402 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE - WILLIAM WARD Short Title: THE ARCHITECTURE OF BOOKS WATKIN Department: Architecture Short Title: ADVANCED TOPICS ARCHITECTURE Grade Mode: Standard Letter Department: Architecture Course Type: Seminar Grade Mode: Standard Letter Credit Hours: 3 Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Credit Hours: 6 Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Description: Over the past decades, the conception of books has become Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level an integral part of any architectural practice. This seminar aims to Prerequisite(s): ARCH 401 and ARCH 403 introduce students to the book as a means to think about the production Description: The final design studio of the four year BA in Architecture of space, and as a critical vessel to discuss and disseminate architectural is conducted as design research studio in which students pursue a ideas. In the first part of the seminar students will engage in an in-depth topic and develop a brief under a conceptual umbrella provided by the analysis of seminal architectural publications, considering their historical instructor. The studio is linked to the ARCH 403 design research seminar background, conceptual background and introducing such topics as taken the semester prior to the studio. typography and layout- and in-class discussions of relevant literature. ARCH 403 - DEGREE PROJECT SEMINAR The second part will be dedicated to the actual "building" of a small Short Title: DEGREE PROJECT SEMINAR architectural publication, which will reflect critical and editorial skills as Department: Architecture well as the craft of bookmaking. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARCH 676. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 376 if student Course Type: Seminar has credit for ARCH 676. Credit Hours: 3 ARCH 400 - ARCHITECTURE UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIP Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Short Title: ARCH UNDERGRAD INTERNSHIP Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Department: Architecture Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Description: A special-topics seminar establishing the intellectual/ Course Type: Internship/Practicum design foundation for the spring Watkin Studio (ARCH 402). Texts, Credit Hours: 1-4 case studies, and design methods will be used to investigate focused Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate subjects of particular contemporary relevance as established by the Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. instructor. Assignments can consist of written papers, analytical projects, Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level elaborations of design techniques, and other forms of investigation. Description: Topics and credit hours vary each semester. Subject to Students are approved for section and topic, taking their preference into approval of faculty advisor and director or undergraduate studies. account. Students enrolled in each section will continue to work with the Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit. Department same instructor in the spring studio. Instructor Permission Required. Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit. ARCH 412 - ADVANCED SEMINAR IN ARCHITECTURE ARCH 401 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE - THE METROPOLIS Short Title: ADV SEMINAR IN ARCHITECTURE Short Title: ADVANCED TOPICS ARCHITECTURE Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Seminar Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 6 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Description: Small, focused, advanced discussion, workshop and/or Prerequisite(s): ARCH 302 design based courses on topics of recent research in architecture, Description: What is the agency of the architect as a public figure and the delivered by RSA full time or visiting faculty. This seminar is open to contributions of architecture to the emerging and existing public realms? RSA undergraduate students junior-level and above, and RSA graduate This studio focuses on a very large building program or urban scaled students. Students from other departments may enroll in the course design, engaging the complexity of the communities and shared spaces with instructor permission. See the RSA website for more information: of the emerging metropolis/megalopolis. arch.rice.edu/courses. Cross-list: HART 412. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 612. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 412 if student has credit for ARCH 612. Repeatable for Credit.
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ARCH 423 - PROFESSIONALISM AND MANAGEMENT IN ARCH 450 - INTERMDIATE ARCHITECTURE SEMINAR ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE Short Title: INTERMEDIATE ARCH SEMINAR Short Title: PROF&MGMT IN ARCH PRACTICE Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Seminar Course Type: Lecture Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Description: Small, focused, intermediate-level course in discussion, Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. workshop and/or design-based format on topics related to current Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level research in architecture. Current offerings and enrollment eligibility are Prerequisite(s): ARCH 302 listed on the Rice Architecture website: arch.rice.edu. Space is limited Description: This course is required for the completion of the Bachelor of and registration does not guarantee a space in this course. Repeatable Architecture professional degree; students may take the course in their for Credit. fourth year of architectural study in the BA program or in their final year Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// of study in the BArch program. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) ARCH 623. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 423 if student ARCH 452 - PRACTICING UTOPIA: ARCHITECTURE, EUGENICS AND THE has credit for ARCH 623. MODERN LATIN CITY Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// Short Title: PRACTICING UTOPIA www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Department: Architecture ARCH 431 - URBANISM: ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY Grade Mode: Standard Letter Short Title: URBANISM: ARCH & THE CITY Course Type: Seminar Department: Architecture Credit Hours: 3 Grade Mode: Standard Letter Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Course Type: Seminar Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Credit Hours: 3 Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Description: This seminar will explore the alliance between aesthetics, Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. science, and ideology at the core of French and Latin American Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level modernism. Focusing on early twentieth-century scientific and cultural Description: The intention of a course on urbanism is to view architecture dialogues between France and Latin America, this seminar will have in light of the city. An assembly of theoretical considerations serves as main territories of exploration: Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, to construct a perspective that allows us to critically assess modern Havana, and Caracas. Cross-list: HART 463. urbanization. The goal is to help students form their own perspective ARCH 455 - HOUSING AND URBAN PROGRAMS: ISSUES IN POLICY on the practice of architecture and to broaden their understanding of Short Title: HOUSE&URBAN PROG:ISSUES POLICY the relentless urbanization that dominates the modern world. Students Department: Architecture are expected to read extensively, to be prepared to discuss topics of Grade Mode: Standard Letter urbanism in class, to form two-person teams to read selected texts to be Course Type: Seminar presented in class and to shape a term project that may take the form of Credit Hours: 3 a final paper or a design proposal dealing with suburban issues. Grades Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level are based on class participation, the reading project and the term project. Description: This course will explore current issues in the formulation and Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 631. Mutually Exclusive: implementation of housing and urban development programs in the U.S. Cannot register for ARCH 431 if student has credit for ARCH 631. An oral presentation and written paper on a specific topic within a general ARCH 433 - THE CULLINAN SEMINAR policy area required. Short Title: THE CULLINAN SEMINAR Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// Department: Architecture www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Seminar Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Description: This seminar for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students will focus on the writings and practice of the semester's four RSA Cullinan visitors: art historian David Joselit (Yale), architect Michael Maltzan (L.A.), architect Alejandro Zaera-Polo (London), and art historian Neil Levine (Harvard). The seminar will be a platform for researching these four topics, including additional background references, other writings by these four figures as well as writings about them and their own work. Additionally, the seminar will feature one seminar session each with the four speakers. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 633. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 433 if student has credit for ARCH 633. Repeatable for Credit.
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ARCH 456 - FUTURES OF THE BOOK ARCH 500 - PRECEPTORSHIP PROGRAM Short Title: FUTURES OF THE BOOK Short Title: PRECEPTORSHIP PROGRAM Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Course Type: Seminar Course Type: Internship/Practicum Credit Hour: 1 Credit Hours: 1-15 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Course Level: Graduate Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Description: Full time internship for nine to twelve months under Description: From an ongoing interest in the book as a physical object, guidance of appointed preceptor. Required for all students enrolled in the to the exploration of its potentials expanding into a four-dimensional Bachelor or Architecture degree program. Repeatable for Credit. digital realm, to rapidly changing demands for the storage and retrieval ARCH 501 - CORE DESIGN STUDIO I of knowledge, this master class will provide a platform to engage experts Short Title: CORE DESIGN STUDIO I from various disciplines in a debate on the shifting futures of the book. Department: Architecture Instructor Permission Required. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARCH 656. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 456 if student Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory has credit for ARCH 656. Credit Hours: 10 ARCH 461 - SPECIAL PROJECTS Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Short Title: SPECIAL PROJECTS Course Level: Graduate Department: Architecture Description: The first in a sequence of four studios that foregrounds the Grade Mode: Standard Letter relationship between form and program. By underscoring this pairing, the Course Type: Research studio suggests that program and form amplify one another (rather than Credit Hours: 1-9 one superseding the other). The studio establishes a foundation in visual Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate culture through examples in architecture and other design disciplines, Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. art, and art history, as well as exercises in visual/spatial discrimination. Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level The studio stresses the importance of iteration throughout the semester: Description: Independent research or design arranged in consultation individual projects emphasize a production/critique/refinement cycle, as with a faculty member. Subject to approval of faculty advisor and director does the overall sequence of projects that make up the entire studio. or undergraduate studies. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for ARCH 502 - CORE DESIGN STUDIO II Credit. Short Title: CORE DESIGN STUDIO II ARCH 477 - SPECIAL TOPICS Department: Architecture Short Title: SPECIAL TOPICS Grade Mode: Standard Letter Department: Architecture Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Grade Mode: Standard Letter Credit Hours: 10 Course Type: Seminar, Lecture, Internship/Practicum, Laboratory Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Credit Hours: 1-4 Course Level: Graduate Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Description: The second in a sequence of four studios that foregrounds Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. the relationship between form, program, and technology. Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level ARCH 503 - CORE DESIGN STUDIO III Description: Topics and credit hours vary each semester. Contact Short Title: CORE DESIGN STUDIO III department for current semester's topic(s). Repeatable for Credit. Department: Architecture ARCH 491 - REAL ESTATE LAB: DEVELOP, DESIGN AND CONTSTRUCTION Grade Mode: Standard Letter Short Title: RE LAB:DEVELOP DESIGN CONSTR Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Department: Architecture Credit Hours: 10 Grade Mode: Standard Letter Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Course Level: Graduate Credit Hours: 3 Description: The third in a sequence of four studios that foregrounds the Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate relationship between form, program, and technology. Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. ARCH 504 - CORE DESIGN STUDIO IV Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-Level Short Title: CORE DESIGN STUDIO IV Description: . Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 691. Mutually Department: Architecture Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 491 if student has credit for Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARCH 691. Repeatable for Credit. Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// Credit Hours: 10 www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Course Level: Graduate Description: The fourth in a sequence of four studios that foregrounds the relationship between form, program, and technology.
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ARCH 507 - TECHNOLOGY I ARCH 514 - TECHNOLOGY III Short Title: TECHNOLOGY I Short Title: TECHNOLOGY III Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Lecture Course Type: Lecture Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Course Level: Graduate Course Level: Graduate Description: The course will introduce students to historical and Description: The building envelope is the collection of material contemporary structures through multi-media presentations, computer- assemblies that separate a building’s interior from the exterior based visualizations, field trips, and hands-on experiments with materials environment. This course examines the interaction of those assemblies of construction and physical models of structures. This course also with natural forces such as temperature, moisture, and solar radiation addresses sustainability issues specific to structural systems such and the details of construction which have evolved to mitigate them. as embodied energy, life-cycle cost, and material recycling. This is the The subject matter includes both traditional building exterior wall and introductory course on the art and science of designing engineered roof construction and newer technologies such as rainscreen, green structures and is the first of four required courses in the architectural roof, and building surface media systems. This course addresses technology sequence. It is intended for first year graduate students sustainability issues related to enclosure systems through energy cost in architecture. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 207. and carbon footprint analysis. It is the third of four required courses Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 507 if student has credit for in the architectural technology sequence. Graduate/Undergraduate ARCH 207. Equivalency: ARCH 314. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 514 Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// if student has credit for ARCH 314. www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// ARCH 509 - TECHNOLOGY II www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Short Title: TECHNOLOGY II ARCH 515 - BRAZIL BUILT: THE CLINIC, THE TROPICAL AND THE Department: Architecture AESTHETIC Grade Mode: Standard Letter Short Title: BRAZIL BUILT Course Type: Lecture Department: Architecture Credit Hours: 3 Grade Mode: Standard Letter Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Course Type: Seminar Course Level: Graduate Credit Hours: 3 Description: This course is the second part of the introduction to Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. contemporary building structures. The topics covered are the design Course Level: Graduate of concrete structures and design of specialized structures including Description: From Brazil Builds, MOMA's 1943 celebrated exhibition tilt wall, long span, and high rise. Each structural type is explored in to Brasilia, the supermodern capital created ex-nihilo in the middle of terms of overall performance, design of individual components, and the nowhere, to today's worldwide attention on Brail, this seminar examines relation of structure to other building subsystems such as foundations, the built environment - natural and architectural - as the main transmitter enclosure, and interiors. This course also addresses sustainability issues of modernism in Brazil. This is a seminar on Brazilian modernism and its specific to structural systems and is the second of four required courses discontents. Cross-list: HART 526. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: in the architectural technology sequence. Graduate/Undergraduate ARCH 315. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 515 if student Equivalency: ARCH 309. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Prior completion has credit for ARCH 315. of Technology I. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 509 if ARCH 516 - TECHNOLOGY IV student has credit for ARCH 309. Short Title: TECHNOLOGY IV Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// Department: Architecture www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Lecture Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Course Level: Graduate Description: This course addresses building environmental systems including power, water, and wastewater with an emphasis on air condition systems. Through multimedia presentations and fieldtrips, students are taught to analyze the thermal environment in a variety of building types and select equipment to meet these needs. Sustainability issues related to environmental systems such as energy conservational and life cycle costs are also addressed. This is the fourth required course in the architectural technology sequence. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 316. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 516 if student has credit for ARCH 316. Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/)
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ARCH 518 - LIVING IN THE CITY IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE ARCH 522 - JERUSALEM TO ISFAHAN Short Title: LIVING IN THE CITY Short Title: JERUSALEM TO ISFAHAN Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Seminar Course Type: Seminar Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Course Level: Graduate Course Level: Graduate Description: Seminar combines primary and secondary sources to Description: A seminar on key topics of the study of visual cultures explore the urban experiences of Ottoman men and women in the 18th in the medieval and early modern Muslim world focused on specific and early 19th centuries. Looking at several cities including Istanbul, works of art. Politics of architectural patronage, dissemination of Izmir, Salonika, Damascus, Aleppo and Alexandria, we will discuss visual languages, calligraphy, "ornament" and figural representation in such issues as neighborhood and community life, public spaces and Islam, cross-cultural exchanges and trans-religious iconographies are recreational culture perceptions of space, urban institutions, Muslim and among the topics discussed. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be non-Muslim relations, migration and marginality, violence and death. assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography Reading knowledge of French and /or Turkish helpful but not necessary. of all these reading to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. meet at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition Cross-list: HART 522. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 332. to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 522 if student has credit for Cross-list: HART 508. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 318. ARCH 332. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 518 if student has credit for ARCH 523 - SEMINAR IN ARCHITECTURE ARCH 318. Short Title: SEMINAR IN ARCHITECTURE ARCH 521 - IMPERIAL CITY: ISTANBUL 1453-1922 Department: Architecture Short Title: ISTANBUL IMPERIAL CITY Grade Mode: Standard Letter Department: Architecture Course Type: Seminar Grade Mode: Standard Letter Credit Hours: 3 Course Type: Seminar Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Credit Hours: 3 Course Level: Graduate Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Description: Small, focused, discussion, workshop and/or design based Course Level: Graduate courses on topics of recent research in architecture, delivered by RSA full Description: This thematic seminar examines significant historical time or visiting faculty. This seminar series is open to RSA undergraduate moments in the architectural and urban cultural of the Ottoman imperial and graduate students. Students from other departments may enroll capital from the moment it was conquered until the demise of the in the course with instructor permission. "See our website for more Ottoman Empire. Weekly readings and discussions will cover a range information: arch.rice.edu/courses". Space is limited and registration of topics including building patronage, architectural decorum, the does not guarantee a space in this course. The final course roster is Byzantine legacy, artistic relations with Persia, India and Europe, cultural formulated on the first day class by the individual instructor. Graduate/ pluralism, neighborhood and public life, law and urban order, modernity Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 323. Repeatable for Credit. and modernization. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned ARCH 525 - INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL THINKING additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all Short Title: INTRO ARCHITECTURAL THINKING these reading to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet Department: Architecture at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two Grade Mode: Standard Letter or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems Course Type: Lecture and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be Credit Hours: 3 expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Course Level: Graduate Cross-list: HART 521. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 331. Description: Introduction to architectural thought. Lectures and Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 521 if student has credit for discussions focusing on practice and ideas that have exercised a ARCH 331. significant influence on the discourse and production of architecture and urbanism. Cross-list: HART 545. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 225. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 525 if student has credit for ARCH 225. Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/)
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ARCH 529 - STREETS AND URBAN LIFE: PARIS TO ISTANBUL ARCH 602 - ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS Short Title: STREETS AND URBAN LIFE Short Title: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Lecture Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 10,12 Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Course Level: Graduate Course Level: Graduate Description: For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned Description: Emphasis on abstract thought and design capabilities additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all relevant to systematic processes of designing specific buildings and these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet facilities. Repeatable for Credit. for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and ARCH 605 - ARCHITECTURE FOR NON-ARCHITECTS INSTRUCTION methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Short Title: NON-ARCHITECTS INSTRUCTION Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements Department: Architecture of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at Grade Mode: Standard Letter the end of the semester. Cross-list: HART 529. Graduate/Undergraduate Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Equivalency: ARCH 329. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 529 Credit Hours: 3 if student has credit for ARCH 329. Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. ARCH 550 - INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE SEMINAR Course Level: Graduate Short Title: INTER/ADVANCED ARCH SEMINAR Description: For selected graduate students only, this course will provide Department: Architecture the opportunity for hands-on teaching experience by involvement Grade Mode: Standard Letter in syllabus design and preparation of lectures, discussions, design Course Type: Seminar exercises and other teaching methods, under the supervision of the Credit Hours: 3 course instructors. Enrollment limited to 6 and by permission only. Course Level: Graduate Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit. Description: Small, focused, intermediate/advanced-level course in ARCH 610 - HISTORY, THEORY AND STRUCTURE/ PARIS PROGRAM discussion, workshop and/or design-based format on topics related (RSAP) to current research in architecture. Current offerings and enrollment Short Title: HIST, THEORY & STRUCTR: PARIS eligibility are listed on the Rice Architecture website: arch.rice.edu. Space Department: Architecture is limited and registration does not guarantee a space in this course. Grade Mode: Standard Letter Repeatable for Credit. Course Type: Seminar Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// Credit Hours: 6 www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. ARCH 600 - M. ARCH. I INTERNSHIP Course Level: Graduate Short Title: M. ARCH. I INTERNSHIP Description: Seminar, comprised of separate modules, each addressing Department: Architecture different issues of urban theory, historical evolution and structure of Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory greater Paris, through lectures, discussions, research and site visits. Course Type: Internship/Practicum ARCH 612 - ADVANCED SEMINAR IN ARCHITECTURE Credit Hours: 1-15 Short Title: ADV SEMINAR IN ARCHITECTURE Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Department: Architecture Course Level: Graduate Grade Mode: Standard Letter Description: Practical work experience for students who have completed Course Type: Seminar at least four semesters in the Option I Program prior to their entrance into Credit Hours: 3 the regular Master of Architecture studio sequence. Instructor Permission Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Required. Repeatable for Credit. Course Level: Graduate ARCH 601 - ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS: STUDIO Description: Small, focused, advanced discussion, workshop and/or Short Title: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS:STUDIO design based courses on topics of recent research in architecture, Department: Architecture delivered by RSA full time or visiting faculty. This seminar is open to Grade Mode: Standard Letter RSA undergraduate students junior-level and above, and RSA graduate Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory students. Students from other departments may enroll in the course Credit Hours: 10 with instructor permission. See the RSA website for more information: Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. arch.rice.edu/courses. Space is limited and registration does not Course Level: Graduate guarantee a space in this course. The final course roster is formulated Description: Emphasis on abstract thought and design capabilities on the first day class by the individual instructor. Cross-list: HART 612. relevant to systematic processes of designing specific buildings and Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 412. Mutually Exclusive: facilities. Note: there are three separate sections for this course. The Cannot register for ARCH 612 if student has credit for ARCH 412. course is coordinated by RSA faculty Troy Schaum and Will Cannady. Repeatable for Credit. Repeatable for Credit.
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ARCH 613 - CASE STUDIES IN SUSTAINABLE DESIGN ARCH 621 - CASE STUDIES IN SUSTAINABILITY: THE HIGH Short Title: SUSTAINABLE DESIGN PERFORMANCE BUILDING Department: Architecture Short Title: SUSTAINABILITY CASE STUDIES Grade Mode: Standard Letter Department: Architecture Course Type: Seminar Grade Mode: Standard Letter Credit Hours: 3 Course Type: Seminar Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Credit Hours: 3 Course Level: Graduate Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Description: . Cross-list: ENST 613. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: Course Level: Graduate ARCH 313. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 613 if student Description: The project-based seminar will provide a means by has credit for ARCH 313. which all those with an interest in the building science entailed in Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// the design of commercial, institutional, and residential structures www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) can investigate common issues, obtain information, discuss local ARCH 615 - WOODSHOP SAFETY strategies, and otherwise address subjects relating to building or campus Short Title: WOODSHOP SAFETY performance over its lifecycle. To develop an approach of taking an Department: Architecture existing Rice University building an optimizing its use via "repositioning" Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory or redesign the class will create an interdisciplinary forum where Course Type: Laboratory students of architecture, engineering (structural, mechanical, etc.), and Credit Hour: 1 human sciences will potentially collaborate with professional building Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. consultants, materials manufactures, contractors, developers, owners, Course Level: Graduate and Rice campus facility managers Cross-list: ENST 621. Graduate/ Description: This course will cover all safety concerns in the model shop. Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 321. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot Students will learn the proper set up and maintenance of the stationary register for ARCH 621 if student has credit for ARCH 321. tools as well as how to do basic fabrication. Students will learn basic ARCH 623 - PROFESSIONALISM AND MANAGEMENT IN material layout and produce objects using the tools as we cover them. ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE Repeatable for Credit. Short Title: PROF&MGMT IN ARCH PRACTICE ARCH 620 - ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS: STUDIO/PARIS PROGRAM Department: Architecture (RSAP) Grade Mode: Standard Letter Short Title: ARCHITECTURAL PROBLEMS Course Type: Lecture Department: Architecture Credit Hours: 3 Grade Mode: Standard Letter Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Course Type: Studio Course Level: Graduate Credit Hours: 10 Description: . Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 423. Mutually Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 623 if student has credit for Course Level: Graduate ARCH 423. Description: Advanced issues in building design and urban infrastructure Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// using greater Paris as context. Emphasis on abstract thought and design www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) capabilities relevant to systematic processes of designing specific ARCH 626 - MATERIAL, FORM, SPACE, TIME: CONCRETE AND THE architectural interventions in the urban context. REVOLUTION OF SPACE IN ANCIENT ROME Short Title: MATERIAL, FORM, SPACE, TIME Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Lecture Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Course Level: Graduate Description: "Architectural Revolution" has been tied to Le Corbusier, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Brunelleschi and to towering Gothic cathedrals. At the foundation of all these endeavors is the Concrete Revolution in Roman Architecture. In this course we'll look at the four essential elements of this revolution from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE, and we'll investigate how shifts in application and experience created a background that informs design to this day. Cross-list: HART 626. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 326. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 626 if student has credit for ARCH 326.
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ARCH 631 - URBANISM I: THE CITY THEORETICALLY CONSIDERED ARCH 646 - FOUNDATIONS IN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF Short Title: URBANISM I ARCHITECTURE II (1850-1950) Department: Architecture Short Title: FOUNDATIONS IN ARCH II Grade Mode: Standard Letter Department: Architecture Course Type: Seminar Grade Mode: Standard Letter Credit Hours: 3 Course Type: Lecture Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Credit Hours: 3 Course Level: Graduate Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Description: The intention of a course on urbanism is to view architecture Course Level: Graduate in light of the city. An assembly of theoretical considerations serves Prerequisite(s): ARCH 345 or ARCH 645 or HART 345 or HART 645 to construct a perspective that allows us to critically assess modern Description: Lectures and discussions focusing on significant urbanization. The goal is to help students form their own perspective architectural and urban practices and ideas formulated be 1850 and on the practice of architecture and to broaden their understanding of 1950. Cross-list: HART 506. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: the relentless urbanization that dominates the modern world. Students ARCH 346. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 646 if student are expected to read extensively, to be prepared to discuss topics of has credit for ARCH 336/ARCH 536. urbanism in class, to form two-person teams to read selected texts to be Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// presented in class and to shape a term project that may take the form of www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) a final paper or a design proposal dealing with suburban issues. Grades ARCH 650 - ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE SEMINAR are based on class participation, the reading project and the term project. Short Title: ADVANCED ARCH SEMINAR Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 431. Mutually Exclusive: Department: Architecture Cannot register for ARCH 631 if student has credit for ARCH 431. Grade Mode: Standard Letter ARCH 633 - THE CULLINAN SEMINAR Course Type: Seminar Short Title: THE CULLINAN SEMINAR Credit Hours: 3 Department: Architecture Course Level: Graduate Grade Mode: Standard Letter Description: Small, focused, advanced-level course in discussion, Course Type: Seminar workshop and/or design-based format on topics related to current Credit Hours: 3 research in architecture. Current offerings and enrollment eligibility are Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. listed on the Rice Architecture website: arch.rice.edu. Space is limited Course Level: Graduate and registration does not guarantee a space in this course. Repeatable Description: This seminar for advanced undergraduate students for Credit. and graduate students will focus on the writings and practice of the Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// semester's four RSA Cullinan visitors: art historian David Joselit (Yale), www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) architect Michael Maltzan (L.A.), architect Alejandro Zaera-Polo (London), ARCH 651 - PRESENT FUTURE SEMINAR and art historian Neil Levine (Harvard). The seminar will be a platform Short Title: PRESENT FUTURE SEMINAR for researching these four topics, including additional background Department: Architecture references, other writings by these four figures as well as writings about Grade Mode: Standard Letter them and their own work. Additionally, the seminar will feature one Course Type: Seminar seminar session each with the four speakers. Graduate/Undergraduate Credit Hours: 3 Equivalency: ARCH 433. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 633 Course Level: Graduate if student has credit for ARCH 433. Repeatable for Credit. Description: The Present Future seminar will examine the history of future ARCH 645 - FOUNDATIONS AND THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF projection as it came to dominate modern architecture and urbanism ARCHITECTURE I (1450-1850) in the period of 1914-2014. The realization of such a large number of Short Title: FOUNDATIONS IN ARCH I future projections over the preceding century allows us to examine their Department: Architecture effects as they have now come to constitute our present. Focusing on Grade Mode: Standard Letter modern urbanism, will trace both the historical and the contemporary Course Type: Lecture effects of the future as it was imagined so long ago. Given the volatile Credit Hours: 3 historical moment that we are presently passing through, an effort will be Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. made to understand the logic as well as the remaining potential of future Course Level: Graduate projection as a design strategy today. Description: Lectures and discussions focusing on significant Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// architectural and urban practices and ideas formulated before 1850. www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Cross-list: HART 645. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 345. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 645 if student has credit for ARCH 235/ARCH 535. Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/)
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ARCH 652 - FOUNDATIONS IN THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF ARCH 656 - FUTURES OF THE BOOK ARCHITECTURE III (1950-2000) Short Title: FUTURES OF THE BOOK Short Title: FOUNDATIONS IN ARCH III Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Seminar Course Type: Seminar Credit Hour: 1 Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Course Level: Graduate Course Level: Graduate Description: From an ongoing interest in the book as a physical object, Prerequisite(s): (ARCH 225 or ARCH 525) and (ARCH 345 or ARCH 645) to the exploration of its potentials expanding into a four-dimensional and (ARCH 346 or ARCH 646) digital realm, to rapidly changing demands for the storage and retrieval Description: Lectures and discussions focusing on significant of knowledge, this master class will provide a platform to engage experts architectural and urban practices between 1950 and 2000. Graduate/ from various disciplines in a debate on the shifting futures of the book. Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 352. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot Instructor Permission Required. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: register for ARCH 652 if student has credit for ARCH 537. ARCH 456. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 656 if student Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// has credit for ARCH 456. www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) ARCH 675 - LATIN-EUROPE/LATIN-AMERICA: THE AESTHETICS AND ARCH 654 - CINEMAS OF URBAN ALIENATION POLITICS OF MODERN CITIES Short Title: CINEMAS OF URBAN ALIENATION Short Title: LATIN-EUROPE/LATIN-AMERICA Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Seminar Course Type: Seminar Credit Hours: 4 Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Course Level: Graduate Course Level: Graduate Description: This seminar examines cinematic engagements with Description: This course challenges our pre-conceived maps of the world, urban spaces and experiences around the world spanning the last highlighting Latin America's place within our understanding of modernity two centuries. Particular attention will be paid to issues of migration, as a product of transnational interconnections. Transversing the Atlantic, marginality, colonialism, war and post-war, nostalgia and memory, race this course traces the interactions of capitalism and culture, science and and gender. Cities of focus include Berlin, Istanbul, Moscow, Algiers, aesthetics, and the ideologies that informed and formed the urban fabric Beirut and Paris. Our weekly discussions of individual films will be and spatial politics of important cities in the modern Latin world - Paris, grounded in critical writings of the cities' histories and theories of space Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Havana, and Brasilia. and film. Cross-list: HART 659. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: Cross-list: HART 675. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 375. ARCH 359. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 654 if student Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 675 if student has credit for has credit for ARCH 359. ARCH 375. ARCH 655 - CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES IN ARCHITECTURE ARCH 676 - THE ARCHITECTURE OF BOOKS Short Title: CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES Short Title: THE ARCHITECTURE OF BOOKS Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Standard Letter Course Type: Seminar Course Type: Seminar Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours: 3 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students. Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Course Level: Graduate Course Level: Graduate Description: Lectures and discussions focusing on issues and Description: Over the past decades, the conception of books has become approaches central to current architectural discourse and practice. an integral part of any architectural practice. This seminar aims to M.Archs take this course in their penultimate semester. Also open to introduce students to the book as a means to think about the production undergraduates, seniors and above. of space, and as a critical vessel to discuss and disseminate architectural Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// ideas. In the first part of the seminar students will engage in an in-depth www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) analysis of seminal architectural publications, considering their historical background, conceptual background and introducing such topics as typography and layout- and in-class discussions of relevant literature. The second part will be dedicated to the actual "building" of a small architectural publication, which will reflect critical and editorial skills as well as the craft of bookmaking. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 376. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 676 if student has credit for ARCH 376.
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ARCH 677 - SPECIAL TOPICS ARCH 701 - THESIS PROPOSAL Short Title: SPECIAL TOPICS Short Title: THESIS PROPOSAL Department: Architecture Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Standard Letter Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Course Type: Internship/Practicum, Laboratory, Lecture, Seminar, Course Type: Independent Study Independent Study Credit Hour: 1 Credit Hours: 1-4 Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students. Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Undergraduate, Undergraduate Course Level: Graduate Professional or Visiting Undergraduate level students. Description: The course provides a structure in which the independent Course Level: Graduate conceptual formulation, articulation, and critical evaluation of thesis Description: Topics and credit hours may vary each semester. Contact proposals can take place. By the end of the semester, each student is department for current semester’s topic(s). Repeatable for Credit. expected to clearly outline a thesis focus, its architectural implications, ARCH 690 - PEDAGOGY PRACTICUM contemporary relevance, and projected material results. Short Title: PEDAGOGY PRACTICUM ARCH 702 - PRE-THESIS PREPARATION Department: Architecture Short Title: PRE-THESIS PREPARATION Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Department: Architecture Course Type: Internship/Practicum Grade Mode: Standard Letter Credit Hours: 3 Course Type: Research Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Credit Hours: 3 Course Level: Graduate Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Description: This course addresses the development of skills for the Course Level: Graduate teaching of History & Technology core courses. Weekly meetings will Description: The aim of this course is to locate potential thesis topics be held and supervised by faculty in the teaching of whose courses and hone those topics by situating them within a lineage of architectural practicum students are involved. Department Permission Required. and urban paradigms. The aim is also to develop and rehearse a focused Repeatable for Credit. argument for your particular approach to the topic. The thesis design ARCH 691 - REAL ESTATE LAB: DEVELOP, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION project tests this approach in a project, the underpinnings of which seek Short Title: RE LAB:DEVELOP DESIGN CONSTR a synthesis of intellectual and design objectives. Thesis concludes with Department: Architecture a public final review, where the project is evaluated both on its own terms Grade Mode: Standard Letter and within the broader field of contemporary architectural discourse. Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 702 if student has credit for Credit Hours: 3 ARCH 638. Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. ARCH 703 - DESIGN THESIS STUDIO Course Level: Graduate Short Title: DESIGN THESIS STUDIO Description: . Cross-list: MGMT 757. Graduate/Undergraduate Department: Architecture Equivalency: ARCH 491. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 691 Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory if student has credit for ARCH 491. Repeatable for Credit. Course Type: Lecture Course URL: www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses (http:// Credit Hours: 10 www.arch.rice.edu/academics/current-courses/) Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. ARCH 700 - PRACTICUM Course Level: Graduate Short Title: PRACTICUM ARCH 711 - SPECIAL PROJECTS Department: Architecture Short Title: SPECIAL PROJECTS Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Department: Architecture Course Type: Internship/Practicum Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Credit Hours: 3 Course Type: Research Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Credit Hours: 1-9 Course Level: Graduate Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Description: Full-time internship service in approved local offices under Course Level: Graduate interdisciplinary supervision. Emphasis on real world design, planning, or Description: Independent research or design arranged in consultation research experiences. Special tuition. May be taken in any semester or in with a faculty member subject to approval of the student's faculty advisor summer. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit. and director. Repeatable for Credit.
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ARCH 729 - THESIS WRITTEN DOCUMENT (FALL) • Major in Architecture and Building Science (attached to the BArch Short Title: FALL WRITTEN THESIS degree): ARBS Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Graduate Degree Descriptions and Codes Course Type: Independent Study • Master of Architecture degree: MArch Credit Hours: 3 • Master of Science degree: MS Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. Course Level: Graduate Graduate Degree Program Description and Code Description: All architecture thesis students are required to provide a • Degree Program in Architecture (attached to the MS degree): ARCH written document to the university on completion of their thesis as a • Degree Program in Architecture and Building Science (attached to the requirement for graduation. This document, prepared in consultation MArch degree): ARBS with the thesis director and the director of the thesis program, should include a written and graphic description of the project and conform to Graduate Degree Program Option Descriptions and the university requirements for thesis documents. Codes* ARCH 730 - THESIS WRITTEN DOCUMENT (SPRING) • Degree Program Option - Option 1 Thesis (MArch degree only): Short Title: SPRING WRITTEN THESIS MARCH-TH1 Department: Architecture Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory • Degree Program Option - Option 1 Non-Thesis (MArch degree only): Course Type: Independent Study MARCH-NONTH1 Credit Hours: 3 • Degree Program Option - Option 2 Thesis (MArch degree only): Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. MARCH-TH2 Course Level: Graduate • Degree Program Option - Option 2 Non-Thesis (MArch degree only): Description: All architecture thesis students are required to provide a MARCH-NONTH2 written document to the university on completion of their thesis as a 1 requirement for graduation. This document, prepared in consultation CIP Code and Description with the thesis director and the director of the thesis program, should • ARCH Major/Program: CIP Code/Title: 04.0201 - Architecture include a written and graphic description of the project and conform to • ARST Major/Program: CIP Code/Title: 04.0803 - Architectural Studies the university requirements for thesis documents. • ARBS Major/Program: CIP Code/Title: 04.0902 - Architectural and ARCH 751 - PRESENT FUTURE II Building Sciences and Technology Short Title: PRESENT FUTURE II Department: Architecture * Systems Use Only: this information is used solely by internal offices at Grade Mode: Standard Letter Rice University (such as OTR, GPS, etc.) and primarily within student Course Type: Seminar information systems and support. 1 Credit Hours: 3 Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) 2020 Codes Restrictions: Undergraduate level students may not enroll. and Descriptions from the National Center for Education Course Level: Graduate Statistics: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode/ Description: ARCH 751 is the third core course of the Master of Arts degree program. It is the concluding semester of the three semester research project, the subject of which changes with each class. The purpose of the semester is to draw the conclusions of the project and produce and package the results. The formats vary with each project. Description and Code Legend Note: Internally, the university uses the following descriptions, codes, and abbreviations for this academic program. The following is a quick reference: Course Catalog/Schedule • Course offerings/subject code: ARCH School/Department Description and Code • Architecture: ARCH Undergraduate Degree Descriptions and Codes • Bachelor of Arts degree: BA • Bachelor of Architecture degree: BArch Undergraduate Major Descriptions and Codes • Major in Architecture (attached to the BA degree): ARCH • Major in Architectural Studies (attached to the BA degree): ARST
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